After a man was released from jail for a child abuse conviction, he allegedly assaulted and injured his 2-month-old daughter within weeks of CPS allowing him to live at home with her.
25-year-old Luis Gabriel Krom resides in Middletown, Connecticut. He is a prior convict who served a 1-year sentence for abusing and injuring a newborn male child in 2017.
Krom also has a 2-month-old daughter.
A children’s book author and her husband who allegedly subjected their adopted children to devastating long-term abuse were taken into custody in Seminole County.
Joseph and Jennifer Wolfthal have a home in Casselberry with their 9-year-old boy and two girls, ages 8 and 11. The Wolfthals adopted all three children in 2014.
Jennifer, who spent 8-years as a 4th-grade teacher, recently published a children’s book titled “A Real Friend.”
The dean of a Florida school and his wife were arrested after it was reportedly discovered that they gave marijuana and alcohol to their teenage babysitter and her underage friends for years.
38-year-old Adam Thayer is the dean of students at the Pinellas Academy for Math and Science charter school. Thayer and his wife, 37-year-old Misty Mitchell-Thayer, reside in the unincorporated community of Palm Harbor in Pinellas County, Florida with their 7-year-old twins.
Approximately two years ago, a girl who is now 17-years-old was providing babysitting services for the Thayer’s children.
After a 3-month-old was diagnosed with a brain bleed purportedly caused by being shaken violently, the infant’s live-in nanny was taken into custody for allegedly causing the traumatic injury.
Alexis Schultz lives with a family in Brooklyn, where she provides nanny services for the two children at the residence.
On December 30, Schultz was reportedly taking care of the 2-month-old boy and his older sister.
James and Mary Mast live in Stover, Missouri, with their three children. Their 4-year-old daughter recently lost her life, purportedly at the hands of their neighbors.
The Mast family reportedly attends the same church as their neighbors, Kourtney Aumen and Ethan Mast. (Ethan is not related to the Mast family.)
27-year-old James Watts lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and he has a 2-year-old daughter.
On December 13, Watts was spending time with his toddler. He was playing music and reportedly drinking from a bottle with a yellow label marked as a “Smirnoff Ice” brand wine cooler.
A foster mother in Carthage is facing felony charges after two sisters in her care were discovered with severe internal and external injuries.
24-year-old Jennifer L. Chanslor-Chambers resides in Carthage, Missouri, and she has been the foster mother of two young sisters since 2019.
On November 23, a person whose identity was not revealed in reports was with Chanslor-Chambers and the children when they noticed that the younger girl appeared to be hunched over, pale, and in a great deal of pain.
After the father of her child ended their relationship, the mother of a newborn reportedly ditched the baby at a stranger’s residence and ran away.
33-year-old Melissa Kelley lives in Astor, Florida, and she recently gave birth to a son.
Kelley and her son’s father ended their relationship, and the woman was reportedly very emotionally distressed over the breakup.
After a mother was accused of giving THC oil to her 2-year-old, the authorities asserted that the child tested positive for the substance, and the woman was arrested.
22-year-old Kiarra Clarisse and her toddler son live in Merritt Island, Florida. Her girlfriend of approximately 8-months lived in the residence until the pair broke up a month ago.
The child’s father has visitation with his son under the supervision of the boy’s grandmother.
A baby born at home and allegedly without the assistance of a trained professional was reportedly found with hypodermic needle marks on her head had heroin in her bloodstream, leading to her death and the arrest of three people.
21-year-old Destiney Harbour from San Angelo, Texas, was expecting a child and was due to give birth in late-August.
It was reported that Harbour’s mom, 37-year-old Christin Chanelle Bradley, and Bradley’s beau, 34-year-old Dustin Wayne Smock, was with Harbour on August 23, when the woman gave birth to her daughter.
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